Geoffrey Boycott Quotes

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

I've never been uncoachable. I've been tough to coach because I'm hypercompetitive and always get to the bottom of things.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

When I speak to people I worked with when I was young, they constantly tell me they wish their students would work half as hard as I did. I was always one to get a lot more out of myself, seeing the glass as half-empty rather than half-full.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.